Naked Science Forum
Non Life Sciences => Geek Speak => Topic started by: thedoc on 04/09/2012 18:13:00
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Smartphone usage has grown in recent years, as has the amount of information we keep on them. A new system has been developed that can secretly track smartphones and even find out where their owners live.
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As far as spoofing the access point a phone is trying to find, how about the password? Will the connection be established even if the fake AP does not ask for the password (because it would not know it of course). In other words, does only an access point require password identification to establish the connection, or does the phone require it as well?
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As far as spoofing the access point a phone is trying to find, how about the password? Will the connection be established even if the fake AP does not ask for the password (because it would not know it of course). In other words, does only an access point require password identification to establish the connection, or does the phone require it as well?
The smartphone is an wireless access point (WAP): It can be configured to allow remote users to use your phone as a internet router. Back to the OP, I believe smart phones were designed for machine learning purposes. It collects and transmit all kinds of informations asynchronously to remote data servers in order to produce artificial intelligence. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM_(surveillance_program)